Southern Methodist University shut down a bake sale Wednesday in which cookies were offered for sale at different prices, depending on the buyer's race or gender. - full article

Wow. I can't decide if this is good or bad, but I definitely find it amusing.

<rant>I'm still waiting for a reasonable response to why affirmative action should be considered fair when it doesn't exist until we reach college; to elaborate, the evaluation criteria that we grow accustomed to throughout grade school and high school are changed drastically when race and social background enter into the picture at the college level. If we're going to have affirmative action, shouldn't we start it in kindergarten?).</rant>

Article highlights:

• students selling cookies on campus
  
• they had a sign that said white males had to pay $1 for a cookie, white women paid $0.75, Hispanics paid $0.50 per cookie, and blacks paid $0.25
  
• similar sales have occurred on college campuses in at least five other states since February 2003
  
• a black student filed a complaint with SMU saying that the sale was offensive
  
• SMU officials halted this sale after 45 minutes because it created "a potentially unsafe situation"
  
• the sale drew a crowd outside the student center and several students jumped into a shouting match